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O. BANNIER CORSET BUSK. NO. 398,569. Patented Feb. 26, 1889.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

OTTO BANNIER, OF HAMBURG, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO ADOLPII HINRICH- SEN (it00., OF SAME PLACE.

CORSET-BUSK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,569, dated February26, 1889. Application filed June 11, 1885. Serial No. 168,303. (Nomodel.) Patented in Belgium May 15, 1885,11'0. 68,885; in France May 23,1885, No. 169,110; in Austria-Hungary October 9, 1885, N0..Z9,109 andNo. 51,312, and in England June 4, 1885, No. 6,807, and June 18,1886,N0.8,129.

To all whom, it may concern: by the hinges (,1, while the straight partsof Be it known that I, OTTO BANN1ER,'a subthe spring and the hinges (Iare covered by ject of the Emperor of Gern'iai'ly, and a resithree metalplates, 19, the middle one of which dent of Hamburg, Gern'iany, haveinvented a serves as a rabbet for the two outer ones, and 5 new anduseful Improvement in Busks for thereby prevents any bending of the huskat Corsets, (for which Robert Hinrichsen and this point toward the innerside. The ends of Adolph IIinrichsen, of Hamburg, have with the pins .5-may also be fitted in a suitable I my consent obtained patents inBelgium May manner to the extremities oi the two outer 15, 1885, No.(58,885; in France May 23,1885, plates, forming hinge-joints. Then themid To No. 169,110; in Austria-I-Iungary October 9, dle plate must bedispensed with altogether, 1885, No. 20,10!) and Xo. 51,312, and inGreat as shown by Fig. 6. ln adopting this arrange- Britain June 1,1885, No. 6,807, andJune 18, i ment only one pin used, around which the1886, No. 8,129,) of which the following a spring is wound in such amanner as to make 3 specification. a lever-like formation, r, in themiddle. The The object of my invention is to avoid the, bent end of thespring catches in a slit, l,probreakage of busks or stays at thewaist,where vided at the upper or lower part of the husk. r they aremostly exposed to breakage, and at I am aware that prior to my inventioncorthe same time to give them greater stiffness set-busks have beenmade, each consisting of against bending toward the inside of the cortwoparts united by springs. I therefore do set. I attain this object by themechanisms not claim such a combination, broadly; but

illustrated in the accom pan ying drawings, in \Vhatl do claim as myinvention, and desire which l to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Figure 1 is a front VlGW; Fig. :2, a vertical 1. A corset bush or staycomposed of two section of the middle part of an improved halves unitedby hinge-joints and a helical double bush. Figs. 3 and 1 aremodifications. spring placed transversely to the bush or stay, A Fig. 5is a detail; Fig. (3, a modified form of one end of the said springbeing attached to the spring, while Fig. 7 shows the application onehalf and the other end to the other half of of a flat spring in themechanism instead of the husk or stay, substantially as described. ahelical sprin 2. In a husk or stay, the combination, with 3c Each buskconsists of an upper part, A, and a single or double hinge, (I, fittedwith a single a lower part, B,whieh are united by means of or doublespring, f, across the staff coiled a helical spring, f, placedtransversely to the round pins 8 of cover-plates p. bush, and hinges cl,the upper end of the said OTTO BANNIER spring being attached to the partA and the lower end to the part B of the bush. Pins 3 \Vit-nesses:

are passed through the adjacent spirals of the ROBERT HINRICHsE 3,spring f. The ends of said pins are inclosed GEORGE LU DWIG.

